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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish [2] [3] Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). Translations from the Original Chinese, with Notes. Canton. Robert Morrison (1815). A Grammar of the Chinese Language. Serampore: Printed at the Mission-Press. pp. 280; Robert Morrison (1815). A grammar of the Chinese language . Serampore: Printed at the Mission-press. p. 280
Established in 1818 in Malacca as the Anglo-Chinese College by Rev. Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary, to China. [1] In 1843, the college was relocated to Hong Kong . With over 200 years of history, it is the oldest school in Hong Kong.
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.
Robert Morrison, of the London Missionary Society, established a mission in Guangzhou (Canton) in 1808; however, the work of Christian missionaries was restricted by the Chinese authorities. After the First Opium War (1839–1842), Hong Kong came under the control of Great Britain and ports on the mainland, including Canton and Shanghai ...
Robert Morris, center, founding pastor of the megachurch Gateway, during a service at the church in Fort Worth, Texas. (Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / Redux file) (Ilana Panich-Linsman)
Projected to cost $86 million, the Southlake campus seats 4,000 people and replaced the former location, which only had 1,600 seats. While it opened in November 2010, the church had an official ...
Emails from 2005 released by Cindy Clemishire show how Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris responded after she asked for “restitution” for sex abuse she says began when she was 12.